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Originally Posted by SunDevil
Yeah, not in the Las Vegas area, but, Reno?
I guess I am saying that it's easier to retain workers or change local laws by threatening to leave a smaller town (metro) than in a large one.
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Labor laws are state level not local, at least not significantly. Unions are very powerful in Nevada due to Casinos.
Your argument about being the only big fish in a small pond in general speaks a little true but its not 100% negative, Its great when companies are willing to grow in smaller towns and cities as they are far more vital to those people and the health of those towns than a Giga-factory in the Sprawl of Southern Cal or Dallas/Ft. Worth.
Employment isn't always exploitive its more often than not mutually beneficial.
And this is not even getting into the fact that Reno-Sparks isn't that small (500k people) that small and is home to plenty of tourism due to Lake Tahoe and the State Government which is an industry in and of itself.